“Choose This Day”: Remembering 9/11 with Lisa Beamer’s Call to Live Ready
“Choose This Day”: Remembering 9/11 with Lisa Beamer’s Call to Live Ready
Real courage is formed before the crisis. Lisa shared that Todd anchored his life in Micah 6:8-“to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God”-and echoed Joshua’s charge, “Choose this day whom you will serve.”
Lisa Beamer at the 2002 PA Family Institute Friends of the Family Banquet
One of the most powerful experiences at a PA Family Institute banquet was hearing from Lisa Beamer, just a year after her husband Todd Beamer died after becoming a hero on Flight 93, in her keynote address that even the hotel banquet staff stopped and listened to.
Lisa Beamer: What truly matters in life and in the face of tragedy
In 2002, just one year after the September 11th attacks, Lisa Beamer-widow of Flight 93 hero Todd Beamer-delivered a keynote address at the Pennsylvania Family Institute Friends of the Family Banquet. Her words, filled with faith and courage, remain a powerful reminder of what truly matters in life and in the face of tragedy.
